1  KA.iT     >OR    tfOI.MUt -.'  NO.    24 

"CHRIST   IN    YOU.* 


BV    IUT.   CIURLKS   i.    ItEEMS,    D.  D. 


4>A  little  deeper,  doctor,  and  you  will  touch 
the  Emperor !"  This  was  the  exclamation  of  a 
French  soldier  when  the  surgeon  was  probing 
for  a  wound  in  the  region  of  his  heart.  He  felt 
the  instrument  drawing  nearer  and  nearer  the 
very  seat  of  life.  It  seemed  almost  to  lay  itself 
on  his  heart.  The  sensations  were  agonizing. 
He  almost  endured  death  in  the  hope  of  pro- 
longing life. 

But  consider  how  sublime  was  this  expression 
c-f  his  devotion  to  his  great  military  chief.  The 
first  Napoleon  had  a  prodigious  power  of  fascina- 
ting his  followers.  It  lay  in  his  wonderful 
character,  his  immense  successes,  his  capability  of 
inspiring  confidence  in  his  troops.  The  soldier 
who  was  under  the  surgeon's  knife,  in  the  midst 
of  his  horrible  suffering,  did  not  forget  Napoleon. 
His  remark  to  the  physician  was  full  of  a  beautiful 
significance.  It  intimated  that  in  the  place  where 
hie  heart  ought  to  be  there  was  no  more  heart, 
it  had  all  become  Napoleon.  What -wonderful 
love  was  this  !  What  transforming  love  was  this! 

My  dear  friend,  Jesus  is  the  Captain  of  our 
salvation.  He  ia  the  noblest,  grandest,  loveliest 
character  in  the  universe.  There  never  was  eo 
great  an  intellect  in  any  other,  there  never  was 


z  twn&s  in    Tor. 

suck  love  for  you  and  me  even  in  the  hearts  of 
our  mothers.  There  never  was  such  a  leader, 
Life  is  a  warfare.  All  men  must  fight.  There 
is  no  volunteering  in  this  war,  because  the  attack 
is  daily  made  directly  and  furiously  or  inaid^ 
iously  upon  us,  or  by  our  lusts  and  passions,  by 
sinful  me»,  by  infernal  spirit*, — and  fight  we 
must,  or  yield  to  the  devil  to  be  led  captive  at  hi& 
will.  Who  shall  lead  us  ?  Who-  has  encountered 
these  hosts?  Who  has  overcome  them ?  Who 
has  led  countless  thousands  in  this  conflict  and 
brought  them,  off  every  ow  ofikem,  more  thaa 
conquerors  ?  It  is  Christ,  No  man  ever  came 
to  Him  and  was  east  out.  No  man  ever  believed) 
in  Him  and  was  confounded.  He  hath  never  left  a 
solitary  follower  dead  upon  the  battle-field..  Every 
man  who  hath  confidingly  followed  close  mpon  His 
footsteps,  through  the  thick  of  the  fight,  hath 
even  fought  Death  and  overcome  him,  and  is 
now  sitting  on  a  throne  and  wearing  a  crown. 

"  Can  I  be  one  of  those  triumphant  followers  V* 
Yes.  But  you  must  really  love  Christ.  No  man 
ever  sustained  the  burden,  the  anxieties,  the 
exposure,  the  peril  of  a  long  campaign,  and  out- 
lived the  whole,  outlived  the  wintry  blasts  which 
blew  the  icy  nightrwinds  furiously  into  his  face 
when  on  guard,  endured  the  drenching  rains 
which  watered  his  garments  and  carried  aches  im- 
to  his  bones  while  he  slept  on  the  wet  ground,  eu- 


CHRIST   IN    YOU.  3 

•lured  the  long  days  of  fasting  when  hunger 
became  so  savage  that  it  was  delicious  to  gnaw 
raw  meet  from  a  bone,  eadured  the  straiaing  vig- 
ilance necessary  when  contending  with  a  wily 
foe,  endured  the  disaster  of  an  occasional  defeat, 
endured  the  painful  separation  from  the  woman 
he  loved  above  all  other  fair  women  and  the 
home  which  was  the  image  of  rest  to  his  soul, — 
and  bore  all  this,  with  hope  deferred,  through 
long  years,  if  he  did  not  Jove  the  cause  he  'fought 
for  and  believed,  it  to  be  worth  all  this  sacrifice. 

Who  can  fight  under  a  leader  he  hates,  for  a 
cause  he  deems  worthless?  We  often  speak  of 
uidentifying"ourselves  with  acause  or  with  a  man. 
It  is  a,  figurative  word,  meaning  that  we  became 
one  with  the  cause  or  the  man,  that  nothing  can 
benefit  or  damage  him  or  it  without  benefiting  or 
damaging  us.  If  we  would  triumph  over  our 
spiritual  foes  we  must  identify  ourselves  with  the 
■cause  of  the  cross  and  with  Jesus  the  great  leader 
of  all  those  who  are  struggling  to  obtain  what  is 
better  than  political  independence,  that  is  to  say, 
holiness  of  heart  and  life. 

And  our  love  for  Christ  must  not  be  slight. 
We  must  give  our  hearts  to  Him.  He  must 
dwell  iu  us.  You  speak  of  carrying  a  mother's 
or  a  wife's  image  in  your  soul.  Aud  when  you 
turn  your  e^yes  inward,  from  landscapes  of  beauty 
or  sconce  of  blood,  there  starts  up  the  image  &i 


4  CHRIST   IN    YOr. 

a  fair-haired  boy,  playing  under  the  tree  before 
the  door.  That  boy  is  your  younger  brother  or  your 
httle  son.  You  may  never  see  that  dear  face  in 
the  flesh  again,  but  you  would  not  sell  for  oceans 
full  of  diamonds  the  blessed  faculty  of  recalling 
the  very  appearance  of  that  precious  child. 

When  you  turn  yohr  eyes  inward  do  you  ever 
see  Christ,  the  tender,  compassionate  Christ  ? 
Does  his  image  smile  back  to  your  humble,  lov- 
ing thoughts  of  His  great  sacrifice  for  you  ?  If 
the  French  soldier  had  loved  Jesus  as  he  loved 
Napoleon,  he  would  have  thought  Jesus  and /eft 
Jesus  and  talked  Jesus.  He  would  have  been 
conscious  of  a  new  nature.  His  heart  would  have 
been  changed.  From  being  the  incarnation  of 
bad  passions  it  would  have  been  Christ.  Who- 
ever should  have  laid  his  hand  on  that  heart, 
would  have  touched  Christ.  His  heroic  devotion 
to  the  Emperor  following  him  into  the  deadly 
breach,  ready  to  lay  down  lire  gladly  for  him. 
was  only  an  outwavd  manifestation  of  an  inward 
and  powerful  passion.  Had  he  ?o  loved  Christ 
he  would  have  been  as  heroically  unselfish  in 
contending  for  Christian  principles  and  promoting 
Christs'  glory  as  he  was  in  advancing  Napoleon. 
And  when  he  came  to  suffer  and  die,  Christ 
would  have  been  nearer  and  more  helpful  than 
the  Emperor  ever  could  be. 

My  friend  you  can   nevt>r   bo   happv  or  gr^at. 


CHRIST   IN    YOU.  0 

you  can  never  reach  the  loftiest  heroism  until 
Christ  be  uin  you  the  hope  of  glory."  Whatever 
else  may  move  you,  you  will  never  feel  the 
noblest  motive  until  the  love  of  Christ  constrain 
you.  For  whatever  else  you  make  sacrifices,  you 
will  never  achieve  the  most  manly  self-denial, 
for  the  highest  objects  possible  to  man,  namely, 
your  own  sanctification,  and  the  salvation  of  your 
fellows,  until  Christ  be  in  you,  the  hope  of  glory. 

See  what  a  grand  possibility  is  here  suggested. 
Christ  is  in  heaven,  throned  crowned,  wor- 
shipped. While  you  are  reading,  ten  thousand 
times  ten  thousands  of  angels  are  making  the 
floor  of  the  everlasting  palace  in  the  skies  radiant 
with  the  flashing  crowns  they  fling  at  His  feet  in 
ecstacy  of  adoration.  While  yOu  are  hearing, 
perhaps  the  word  of  obscenity  or  blasphemy  from 
some  comrade  or  fellow-travele,r,  myriads  of  holy 
beings  circle  Him  with  praises,  whose  rapture 
rides  and  swells  and  spreads  itself  outward  and 
upward,  until  all  heaven  is  filled  with  the  roll  of 
its  musical  thunder.  And  among  those  happy 
shouting  harpers  are  "a  hundred  and  forty  and 
four  thousand  and  an  immense  multitude  whom 
no  man  can  number."  And  they  all  are  men, 
women,  and  children.  They  have  all  worn  human 
flesh  about  them,  and  had  the  frailties  and  sins 
of  our  humanity.     Why  are  they  there  ? 

They  are  there  bci?si\x.-j«  the  srlorrow?  adorable 


6  CHRIST   IN   YOU. 

Christ  has  not  always  heen  sitting  upon  that 
throne.  He  has  been  down  upon  this  earth. 
He  has  been  a  man  like  unto  one  of  us.  He  has 
been  exhibited  to  the  world  as  the  propitiation 
for  the  sins  of  all  men.  He  has  been  the  slain 
Lamb.  He  is  the  slain  Lamb.  They  have 
redemption  through  His  blood.  We  have  "re- 
demption through  His  blood,  even  the  remis- 
sion of  s'ns."  It  is  a  sight  past  all  comprehension 
glorious  when  a  poor  sinner  sees  that  that  Christ 
on  the  cross  is  his  saviour.  It  h  an  indescribable 
joy  to  believe  tha^  you  shall  shout  His  praises  in 
heaven. 

But  the  Scripture  shows  there  may  be  some- 
thing better  than  all  this,  namely  "Christ  in 
you."  And  "in  you"  He  must  be.  It  is  not 
sufficient  that  He  is  upon  the  cross  dying  for 
your  sins,  nor  that  He  is  in  heaven  pleading  for 
your  souls.  He  must  be  in  you.  It  is  a  grand 
possibility  that  He  who  is  the  glory  of  angels  and 
the  Saviour  of  mankind  may  be — -in  you  ! 

Now,  if  Christ  be  in  you  there  are  many  things 
which  cannot  be  there  at  the  same  time. 

Your  selfishness  must  be  cast  out.  You  have 
thought  and  toiled  and  labored  anxiously  to 
promote  the  comfort,  the  happiness,  the  glory  of 
3'ourself.  Before  all  others  you  have  preferred 
yourself.  Your  own  will  has  been  the  highest 
law  of  your  life.  You  have  pleased  yourself  as 
long,  as  thoroughly,  as  often,  as  possible.  If 
Christ  be  in  you  you  will  seek  to  please  yourself 
no  more,  but  constantly  strive  to  do  that  which 
k.  pleasing  in  His  sight. 

Your  love  of  the  world  muafc  be  cast  out.  "  If 
any  man  love  th<>  world  the  love  of  the  Father 


CHRIST    IN    VOl'.  i 

is  not  in  him.''  And  if  the  love  of  the  Father 
be  not  in  the  heart  the  Sou  will  not  dwell  there. 

Your  sin  must  be  cast  out.  Christ  is  holy.  He 
will  not  dwell  where  sin  is.  lie  will  not  divide 
the  scepter  with  Satan.  If  he  is  to  be  in  you, 
you  must  be  pure.  And  think  what  a  blessed 
thing  all  this  will  be — to  be  empty  of  selfishness?, 
worldlincss  and  sin — even  if  Christ  were  not  in 
you.  But  what  prodigious  blessings  will  attend 
this  residence. 

If  He  be  "  in  you"  you  toill  be  a  happy  man. 
His  smiles  will  make  sunshine  at  your  heart.  His 
love  will  be  a  continual  feast.  You  may  have  no 
friend  near  you.  Those  you  have  always  loved 
may  be  put  away  into  darkness.  All  around  you 
may  be  enemies.  You  may  be  lost  in  swamps  or 
pining  in  prison.  But  what  of  that?  To  carry 
"in  you  "  the  noblest,  purest,  most  devoted,  most 
powerful  of  all  friends,  What  j^our  soul  most 
needs  and  most  craves  of  all  things  in  heaven 
and  earth  will  be — not  near  you,  but — "  in  you." 
Your  satisfaction  will  be  delightful. 

If  He  be  "  in  you"  you  ivill  be  a  noble  man. 
He  is  the  loftiest  of  all  beings,  and  if  you  have 
"  the  mind"  which  was  in  Christ,  (Phil,  ii :  5,) 
you  will  be  elevated  above  trifles,  be  lifted  above 
little  cares,  be  engaged  in  the  grandest  of  all 
works,  and  under  the  expansive  power  of  this  new 
nature  will  rise  to  the  loftiest  cast  of  character. 

If  He  be  "  in  you"  you  will  be  a  safe  man. 
Nothing  can  harm  you.  The  God  who  made  all 
worlds,  all  forces,  all  mights,  all  powers,  seen 
and  unseen,  dwells  in  you.  He  will  protect  His 
,own  habitation.  The  thunders  cannot  disturb 
you,  the  lightnings  caneot  move  you,  the  flames 


g  CH.RIST    IN     fol'. 

canuut  consume  yon,  the  floods  cannot  swallow 
you.  Christ  is  in  you.  Men  wonder.  Devils 
tremble.  Angels  rejoice.  They  see  that  He 
who  inhabiteth  eternity  hath  descended  to  abide 
in  what  was  the  den  of  the  devils  He  hath  cast 
out.  You  may  descend  to  lion-pits,  as  Daniel 
did.  The  Son  of  God  is  in  you,  and  the  brutes 
cower  before  their  Lord.  You  may  walk  in  the 
furnace  of  seven-fold  flame,  aw  Bhadrick,  Me- 
shack  and  xlbednego  did.  "One  like  unto  the 
Son  of  man"  will  walk,  not  with  you,  but ■  "  in 
you."  The  flames  shall  own  His  power  and  roll 
themselves  to  sheets  of  glory  about  you.  You 
shall  "run  through  a  troop,"  for  He  that  is  "  in 
you  "  "  covereth  your  head  in  the  day  of  bat- 
tle." You  shall  face  death,  but  when  he  sees 
you  he  shall  fly  howling  from  you  because  he 
beholds  "  in  you  "  that  Christ  who  long  ago 
conquered  him  and  dragged  him  at  His  chariot 
wheels.  The  gates  of  paradise  shall  fly  up  as 
you  approach,  and  the  doors  of  heaven  shall,  lift 
themselves,  because  you  mount  the  universe  car- 
rying in  your  soul  the  Lord  of  all  the  universe. 
Have  you  never  let  him  enter  your  heart.  Throw 
open  the  doors  now.  He  stands.  He  knocks. 
He  wishes  to  enter.  While  he  is  outside  you 
are  filled  with  the  fear  of  Borne  future  failure, 
shame,  or  catastrophe.  When  He  enters  you 
shall  be  filled  with  "  the  hope  of  glory." 


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